I don't know where you installed Tropico 4. I can't help beyond what I've already posted on locations.

If you mean the HPKs, they're still where the links point.

Content removed. I should have asked the question in another thread.

At this point in time anything except entities/models can be modded into, or out of, the game.

Though arguably you can just disable entities. I'm not working on anything specific at the moment, due to a high study workload beginning in a week or two, but I am looking into resolving the entity loading problem through Lua's C-API (and signature scanning and some very nasty code).

i love this mod...(5k version woorks fine without any issures')

but:/ now i have modern times and it dont work anymore...
again roadlimit and populationlimit ...args

can you please update?

thx

Does it still work when you play an old sandbox map or the original campaign?

My *personal* version of this mod works, but it's never going to be released because it causes many instabilities.

Playing on the Steam version and it seems to have stopped working for me as well. Loading up my last pre-MT game it seems to be sitting around 1620 population rather than growing.

Neat. The loading mechanism for the expansion is a mystery, and this is a problem ...

I'll see if I can get some time today to put together the basis for my mod SDK and hack a fix into play.

I tried moving the file to different directories....that didn't work either.

i miss the 5,000 limit mod and the Metropolis mod.

As an update, I know why it's broken, I think I know how it can be fixed, but I haven't the time to clean up my own code.

I tried removing some stuff and my detour throws access violations (for obvious reasons). I haven't really got the patience to decouple the logger from my hacky code at the moment, so I'll fix this when I get the time.

swixel i hope you get time soon

nice you find the issure so i m happy to know that the update comes ...( not today because you haven t time but it comes.)..thx a lot

Good to know you're sure of what's wrong and what to do at the very least. Can't wait to have the fix, thank ya sir.

swixel when you think yu get time?
i dont wanna stress you heheh...... i only willl say that the game without your mod ..is only half...fun...

sooo...i cant whait for it hehhehe

Well I'm about half way there to making a semi-useful modkit base. On the systems I've tested I can now get data to load again (though building modding is right out in the way we used to mod it).

Earliest I'd imagine I'll get time to finish it to the point where this could be 'fixed' to work again is the weekend ... sorry.

EDIT: And this is *just* loading settings and functions, nothing flashy like buildings. I'm thinking of adding a legacy mode to load old (now broken) mods.

why sorry?

so fast? Oo nice

Ditched my plans to make a complex pile of code and to hide things ... pretty much over nobody else looking into it, so I'm just dumping what I've been using.

See the first post for the code that bypasses the clobbering.

Will you still be working on the other route for the mod? Because as embarrassing as it is...

Make a folder called "Game" in your Tropico 4 directory.

Take the code from the first post, save it into the Game directory, naming the file nolimits.lua

Then launch Tropico. The population limit is defined in the code, as are the game entity limits (the game will crash if you pass the entity limit, which is why I've set it to 200,000 for a 20,000 population limit).

It should work for both T4 and T4:MT because it late loads.

My thanks, it worked. Sorry for bothering you about the specifics, I can be a bit off at times and I wasn't sure if notepad would work of if python was needed.

That's Lua ... anyway, the game executes uncompiled code fine. This sort of modding is pretty trivial (at least at the most basic tweak level).

(06-04-2012 08:12 AM)Swixel Wrote:  Make a folder called "Game" in your Tropico 4 directory.

Take the code from the first post, save it into the Game directory, naming the file nolimits.lua

Then launch Tropico. The population limit is defined in the code, as are the game entity limits (the game will crash if you pass the entity limit, which is why I've set it to 200,000 for a 20,000 population limit).

It should work for both T4 and T4:MT because it late loads.

I did everything that u said, but still doesn`t work. I created a folder named Game. And saved the code into the game directory but it doesnt work

finish so fast.?.^^thx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

first thx...but i have one problem ..it dont change the .txt to .luna it called now nolimits.lua.txt ^^

i use the steam version....
edit..ok now i have it.... now its nolimits.lua
i use now no specifications if i save...and now i try heheh

but first really thx a lot you save my game

Nice job, I tryed in my own savegame and it made something rare: stay a bit in 1500 and in a second up to 2200, a massive baby boom ^^... and even if the number of workers get increased I still have those tiring message telling that my garages and teamer's office are without workers :S

and on me dont work..i have 1450 pop and ..stabile...?..

hmm maybe i do something wrong`?

*edit: i try now on 2 differnt selfmade maps.... no dont work sry

i made in
C:\Program Files (x86)\steam\SteamApps\common\tropico 4 a new folder ..called game..inside i put nolimit.lua

but dont work atm i see my max was 1550 pop

edit2: one last idea i have maybe old save dont work with?...so i made new island...and will try there to start with 5000 pop....if its grow up..all fine..if not..hmmm..so i dont know

or maybe is the english (witch one you use?) version other to the german..(i have the last)?...but before MT works..so normaly not..

(06-04-2012 06:18 PM)rafaragao Wrote:  I did everything that u said, but still doesn`t work. I created a folder named Game. And saved the code into the game directory but it doesnt work

Make sure it's not nolimits.lua.txt, as terr suggested.

If you use the command prompt, cd to the directory. For the Steam users: 1. Copy this: cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\steam\SteamApps\common\tropico 4"
2. Right-click paste into the CMD window
3. cd Game
4. Type in: dir

If it's nolimits.lua.txt
5. move nolimits.lua.txt nolimits.lua

It's also possible playing the older campaign stuff is breaking it, as I haven't looked too far into it. All I know is it works for how I play.

1. what you play (selfmade map, campain,sandbox?).. if you try?
2. yea i do i change to nolimit.lua ..the txt was gone if i save under not specific file (thats how it calls in german sry if its wrong)
3. atm i try new map...and give it (5000 was too mutch hehe)
4000 pop..i start it and it was stable to 4000 no one comes no one goes (i wonder a bit because was terrible living there ^^ )..

i buil a lot of roads but isnt finish jet but think in 30 min i will get normaly the roadlimit and the poplimit i think i will see this in 2-3 hour if the new map is ready...

but i will than tell you what happend swix


ok first result (in the editor) i build roads roads roads ...crash...but i had a save close before..so will try it again.....but if crash again i think its the file...

There's a chance the map is resetting the value if it's a pre-MT map. I don't have any old sandbox saves from pre-MT anymore, because they all got to points of ridiculous populations and the game was too slow to play with 18,000 people

You could try adding this to the end of the file:

That will force the mod to reload every time the map changes. This is one of the hooks I was looking to use for general mod use (so people could switch mods by going to a new menu off the main screen).

local GameEntityCount = 20000
local MaxPopulation = 20000

hmmm...maybe i reache gameentry max ^^ by the roads bcause i change now to lager (something with 1.5 mio) and now i bult a lot of roads (more as before no crash now...but we will see i havend finished my island jet ..hhihih....atm i have build room for 2000...so i neet bit more roads)
but is that possible swix?
but the maxpop i don t tasted jet (only in editor..i will try later play it up to). ..but its still 4000 no chrash or slow down



Code:


OnMsg.MapPermanentObjectsLoaded= function()
NoLimitsMod()
end
i will try
and before MT my max i played was ~15000...but later i use only nolimit5k...was not so slow

The default entity limit is 20,000, so you'll want to raise it anyway. I put 200,000 in mine because you're unlikely to reach 200,000 unless your population is set to a crazy limit (the people add more entities, like cars, and their need for more buildings).

The roads aren't likely to push you beyond what you need either.

but i changend not the max pop
it look now like
local GameEntityCount = 1500000
local MaxPopulation = 20000

but if its not the reason ..so i dont know why it crash before was only a idea
but atm it works..
im close to finish the island' and than we see eheh
i hope it goes than up over 4000...

in the editor i say 4000 start pop...

*edit
ok island ready aaaand it works)

I made a little modification to your mod code, it just don't "create" inhabitants, it just increase the limit. I tested in my MT and it works in a savegame and in a new game (well, in savegame where an issue: even if inmigrants come to my island still get me messages about the no workes, etc. but the inhabitants numers get increased over the time)